339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.